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.Whatcha wanna bet he activates the National Guard to quell the rebellion at City hall

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made so and kept so by the exertions of better men [and women] than himself." ~John Stuart Mill, 1806 - 1873

It was only a matter of time before the locals got fed up, but what's funny is that they were extremely supportive of the hippies when they first arrived. The local Community Planning Board is invariably on the side of trendy leftist causes (they approved the Ground Zero Mosque, for example, but have dragged their feet on permitting a historic church to rebuild). It took a few months for them to realize that they were losing money, at which point their liberal street cred became less important than their bottom line.

A mayor can request that the governor call out the guard, but the guard is a state asset.

Originally Posted by Rockntractor

I'm not sure, during the civil rights movement I thought they sent them to Louisiana when they tried to block busing, not sure?

In Arkansas, the progressive, Democrat governor, Orvile Faubus, called out the guard to prevent the integration of the schools after Brown V. Board of Ed. Eisenhower used his authority to federalize the guard and ordered them to stand down and then sent the 101st Airborne in to enforce the order.